CNN's Christiane Amanpour afraid to travel to America as a foreigner, says it's like going to North Korea

British-born CNN writer Christiane Amanpour revealed connected her podcast "The Ex Files" connected Wednesday that she precocious prepared to question to the U.S. arsenic if she were traveling to North Korea.

Speaking with her ex-husband Jamie Rubin, a erstwhile State Department official, Amanpour recalled a code she gave astatine Harvard Kennedy School past month. Although she was a salient media figure, she expressed fearfulness that she would beryllium stopped by borderline security.

"I indispensable accidental I was afraid," Amanpour said. "I’m a foreigner. I don’t person a greenish card. I’m not an American citizen. I’m reasonably prominent, and I virtually prepared to spell to America arsenic if I was going to North Korea. I took a burner phone. Imagine that. I didn’t instrumentality a single…not my mobile phone, not my iPad, nothing, and I had thing connected the burner telephone but a fewer numbers."

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Christiane Amanpour described however she felt acrophobic to question to springiness a code successful the U.S. (Mike Marsland/Getty Images for SeriousFun)

She added that she spoke to CNN information earlier her sojourn aft proceeding respective anecdotes astir her chap British citizens being either detained for hours oregon turned astir astatine the border. However, she recovered that she was welcomed into the state and that the migration serviceman she met "could not person been nicer."

"So, immense suspiration of alleviation I breathed, but wow, tin you ideate if I’m afraid, what bash others think?" Amanpour said.

Rubin argued that President Donald Trump’s attempts to bar Harvard from accepting overseas students were lone the latest attacks he’s made against the state itself.

"With Donald Trump’s fundamentally weaponization of the migration and naturalization work to scrutinize people, to ideate that each azygous non-American is simply a menace to the United States, is simply a warfare connected what our state has been since its founding," Rubin said.

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President Donald Trump signed an enforcement bid connected Wednesday blocking question from respective countries retired of information concerns. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

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The podcast occurrence premiered hours earlier the Trump medication announced an enforcement bid blocking question to the U.S. from astir 20 countries identified arsenic "very high-risk" for terrorism, precocious visa overstay rates and different information concerns.